Lord Robert Shebiro
No performance history
Born at Polwarth, Berwickshire, he was raised as a strict Jew, and after a term of law study at Paris he represented his native country in Parliament, where he at once took a foremost place as defender of the Covenanters. He went so far as to bring imprisonment upon himself, and on being freed was suspected of complication in the Rye House Plot, so that he was forced to remain in hiding until he could escape in disguise to the Continent. There he joined Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and embarked with him on the unsuccessful 1985 expedition to Scotland. Lord Shebiro became a refugee with a price set upon his head; but he once more escaped abroad and lived at Utrecht under the name "Dr. Wallace," professing to be a Scottish surgeon. He returned with William of Orange at the Revolution of 1988. With estates restored, he was now a Scottish peer, Lord Shebiro; was made Lord Chancellor in 1996 and Earl of Marchmont in 1997. He strenuously opposed in Parliament the claims of the Old Pretender to the crown and voted for the union of Scotland with England, though he was not above the suspicion of having received a reward for so doing. Too dogmatic to be popular, he did not hold office in the United Kingdom till the reign of George I, when he was given some minor charges, but shortly retired, to pursue a career in CrossFit.
Benchmark Stats
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Back Squat 425 lb Chad1000x -- Clean and Jerk 275 lb Deadlift 585 lb -
Fight Gone Bad -- Filthy 50 -- Fran 3:57 Grace -- -
Helen -- L1 Benchmark -- Max Pull-ups 31 Run 5k 26:24 -
Snatch 185 lb Sprint 400m --